To many, epiphanies seem impossible because they can’t foresee what they’ll be. But this is one essential quality of an epiphany.

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An imminent epiphany is not dark; it is invisible.

An imminent epiphany is not indistinct or fuzzy; it is nothing.

An imminent epiphany is not tiny in the distance; it is nowhere.

An imminent epiphany does not announce its impending arrival; it is not in transit.

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In the world of epiphanies, “fuzzy front end” happens late in the process, after the hardest work has been done.